Documentary film maker Hamilton Morris can never have sex on Thursday again, for the rest of his life. Or he could die. Probably violently. Definitely tragically.

Those are the terms of his marriage, because he’s married to the Haitian god Erzulie. (No, not a typo.) The Haitian god Erzulie. But! She’s a goddess of love, so there is that.

Morris stumbled upon his accidental wedding while researching a documentary on zombies for Vice’s VBS.TV. He dusts off now 30-year-old work by Harvard-trained ethno-botanist Wade Davis, whose research into the bio-chemical properties of secret voodoo potions inspired Wes Craven’s 1988 flick, “The Serpent and the Rainbow.”

Morris’s “Nzambi”, is now streaming in six-parts on VBS.TV, with the last episode premiering on Halloween night.

In Haiti, Morris finds himself a burly bodyguard and not long after his arrival, visits an eight-hour religious ceremony that culminates in a live animal execution and Morris’s wedding to the goddess Erzulie.

Our first question to Morris, leaving propriety aside, was: Would you ever break that never-on-Thursday rule? What about girlfriends?

“Are you asking me if I would disrespect the sacred oath that I made to Erzulie?” Morris asked. “I will never have sex again on a Thursday for the rest of my life. Absolutely, for real.”

Morris did consider saying no to the proposal. His bodyguard warned of past husbands of Erzulie, whom had died in crashes or were paralyzed following having relations on a Thursday. Still, Morris consented. He also promised the god that he would return to Haiti, which he has not yet fulfilled. (Filming took place a year ago, and the earthquake hit the country a few weeks after the crew had returned to the States.)

Morris, who tracks down a few black magicians on his journey, hedges on whether he actually believes in the power of magic potions and their ability to turn men into zombies. The answer is contextual, he says. “”It’s true that none of these things can hurt you if you don’t believe in them,” Morris said. “But as soon as you go to Haiti you believe in it because it’s such a pervasive, strange belief system. Everyone around you is so terrified of all these mystical poisons and they’re convinced that someone has dusted them with a poison.”

Morris sardonically notes that even if he remains open to the possibility of zombies in Haiti, he has no fear of running into one in, say, Brooklyn. In America, religion’s role doesn’t typically stray into entertainment, he argues. But in the poorest country in the world, the religious ceremonies serve as proxies for television, radio and movie entertainment. People drink, dance and smoke drugs for as long as eight hours, he said. “To them, it’s not just a ritual that they’re doing to protect themselves from evil. It’s the highlight of their year to sacrifice that goat,” Morris said. “So that’s why it wouldn’t work in America, because we are too distracted by all our other forms of entertainment.”

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